yup, i did sleep there, and i had to shake down the tent quite a few times in the night to stop the snow piling up 🙂
contrary to the popular
Single shot
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f2.8 and Shutter Speed: 30s
ISO: 3200
out front: home for the night
This place makes sunrise without clouds simply awesome 🙂
Using a feature in the landscape to take the edge away from the sun can be you capture shots like this using single exposures, in this case, this panorama was 3 separate shots stitched together. Placing the sun just behind a branch on the frozen tree meant that the dynamic range of the scene could still be captured by the camera in one exposure as opposed to bracketing the frames..
A great example of how the landscape can just disappear into misty snow and before you know it the trees you just past are gone and you start wondering which way is the right way 🙂
This was taken close to the middle of the day during a little scout around the campsite.
3 sot panoramic image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 1/1000s
ISO: 100
out front: white
a view worth freezing my balls off for.
8 shot panorama, each shot in the portrait orientation, alittle light painting on the snow and rocks to bring out some detail.
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f2.8 and Shutter Speed: 30s
ISO: 3200
out front: phallic rock, cold ass snow and a beautiful sky
Breakfast in bed… even if it was only jam on toast 🙂 thanks Chaos and Tickles.
…under the culvert and over the fields and off up into the old man of Storr 🙂
or… when mum says there is no boobie for another hour…
your just lucky I can't walk over there and punch you in the nose for making me wear this non-functional headband…. just you wait 😉
I really wanted one of those cool baby shots where the child is fast asleep and positioned in this handy basket that I found in the kids room the other, but little E is not so little and not so non-wriggly.. at the very least Tickles and I had fun trying to get her to cooperate 🙂
… from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair
There is some really beautiful detail in this image, you can see the projections onto the Opera House sails (LHS), the Harbour bridge climbers, the lights of North sydney.
It can be quite tricky to capture sunset scenes when shooting directly into the sunset or light source, the large dynamic range in the light means you need ot bracket your images, even when the light does become more subtle and soft as when this shot was taken.
This image is a panorama of 3 frames, with each frame bracketed, you can see the result in this by looking at the shadow detail on the opera house and the full rich orange of the sunset underneath the bridge. There are quite a few ways to do images like this, in this case I have automatically blended the individual pano frames in Lightroom resulting in 3 DNG format files, these are then sent to Photoshop to be stitched together, there is then a bit of wrangling to ensure the perspective is correct and just some usual adjustments to accentuate the scene.
you don’t buy Italian designed/made things just to serve the purpose, its about the experience of getting there, that is why you buy them 🙂 Take for example Italian cars, its not about getting from A to B, its about doing it in a particular style and stopping at A(a) A(b) and A(c) before hitting B 🙂
Italian coffee machines are no different, its about the experience, not saying the taste is bad, it just takes a bit more to get there, the La Pavoni lever handle machines are a prime example, these are absolutely awesome little machines, really they are just a glorified kettle (pressurised) however when used in the right way can make coffee second to none, conversely, get it wrong and you will wonder what Italian god you cursed 🙂 If you want a coffee with no thought and no experience you do not buy one of these, these are for the tweakers, the ones who love a challenge and love the full unadulterated control over their coffee making process. For some like me we go even further, roasting the beans as well 🙂
I have owned a second hand La Pavoni for a long time now, its an old (well really quite young given they started making them in the 60’s) Europiccola (98 model) which I bought off a lady who received it as a gift but could never get a decent coffee out of it, I got it for a few hundred bucks, it was hardly used and has subsequently (and will continue to) served me well for over ten years. Another thing I love about these is the fact they have a parts catalogue which is better than some aircraft I have worked on… and.. this is the important bit, every part in the machine can be purchased, at a reasonable cost too.. every year or so i replace the seals in it and it just keeps chugging on.
Now as noted before, they are tweaky, with so many variables involved the potential to get something not quite right is very high, however with the basics (fresh beans and correct grind) covered you will just about always get something drinkable and when you get it all right simply awesome coffee.. once you have it setup, ie the right grind, regular fresh beans you will wonder how anyone can get it wrong 😉
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